Remembering Roger Ebert: Film Journalists Offer Their Reflections. News of Roger Ebert's passing rippled through the community of film critics rapidly yesterday, and before the day was over, many memorial articles and essays had been published. We reached out to several of Ebert's esteemed colleagues and collected their thoughtful tributes to celebrate his career and to illustrate precisely how influential he was. "I can't think about him as anything other than 'Roger,' even though I knew him just better than slightly, through the occasional e-mail exchange or seeing each other at film festivals. He'd be jammed into a row with the rest of the pale ghosts, all of us wielding pens and notebooks and attitudes. With Roger, the attitude was simple. He seemed to sit down in front of a screen with a blank canvas of expectation, as if saying to the filmmakers, 'Show me.' If the movie did, and it convinced him, and he was convinced of the rightness of what he was being shown, he would spread the word.
" "Roger Ebert is the reason I became a film critic. Interview with Max Greenfield of the New Girl: Movies + TV. How Master D.P. Roger Deakins Got These 10 Shots. Root all you want for your Chastains, your Rivas, your Hathaways, and your Day-Lewises; for me, the Oscar nominee to pull for this weekend is venerated cinematographer Roger Deakins, nominated ten times with nary a win to his name. He's back in the race this year with the gorgeous, lush Skyfall, but Deakins is perhaps best known for his work with Joel and Ethan Coen, for whom he's shot every film from Barton Fink to True Grit.
I rang up the 63-year-old Brit this weekend to discuss some of the most iconic images he's produced over his long career, though the first still I asked him to explain wasn't from a Coen brothers film at all: The Shawshank RedemptionThat famous shot of Andy (Tim Robbins) escaping from the prison, arms outstretched as the rain pours down on him? You know, the moment so powerful that it was repurposed on the poster? Yeah, that wasn't originally part of the plan. The Big Lebowski"We were all laughing so much! " O Brother, Where Art Thou? Jake Johnson on Nick Miller’s Craziest Moves. 30 Best Jokes From "30 Rock" The Troubled Birth Of American Psycho - Entertainment. A group of young alpha executives are sitting around a boardroom table in a swanky New York office.
With uniform slicked-back hair, pressed Armani suits and Oliver Peoples frames, they resemble swaggering yuppie robots. And as the conversation bounces aimlessly around, one of the clones reaches into his jacket pocket. The camera (because this is a film) closes in and he pulls out a silver box, before flipping it open decisively. From inside he retrieves a business card and slides it purposefully across the table for his colleagues to see. As the first signs of a smug grin form on the man’s chiselled face, he informs the group that he’d “picked them up from the printers yesterday”. Again we get a fetishistic close-up – this time of the card. If there’s one moment in American Psycho that sums up the film’s utter greatness, it’s the business card scene. Ellis’s novel was supposed to have been printed by Simon & Schuster in March 1991.
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Read a Special Message from Parks and Recreation's Chris Pratt, Who Recently Gave His Cat Away on Twitter. As Andy Dwyer on Parks and Recreation, Chris Pratt brings joy to millions. But apparently that is not enough for members of the cat-loving Tweet-o-sphere community, as Pratt became the target of an online smear campaign this week.
Yes! Lovable Chris Pratt! It all started on Monday when he announced, via Twitter, that he was giving up his cat: Anyone in the LA area want a cat? Well, that about did it. To those of you somehow hung up on the notion that I kicked the walker out from underneath our cat and threw her into the streets, first of all, cats don’t use walkers, so that’s a ridiculous notion. Bottom line, and not that this is any of your fucking business weirdos, but my wife and I want to start a family and we ABSOLUTELY CANNOT have an animal that sh*ts all over the house. So please! No, you are most definitely not. Cannes 2012. Lineup on Notebook. Cosmopolis So we've known for some time now that Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom will be opening the Cannes Film Festival (site) on May 16.
Yesterday, the Festival announced that Thérèse Desqueyroux, Claude Miller's final film, will close this year's edition on May 27. Miller's adaptation of François Mauriac's novel Thérèse Desqueyroux features Audrey Tautou in the title role as well as Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier. And lineups for the Short Films Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection were unveiled on Tuesday. Jean-Pierre Dardenne will preside over the Jury. Today, the Festival's announced the full lineup for the Official Selection of its 65th anniversary edition. This is a roundup-in-progress, obviously. Update, 4/30: Seven films have been added to the lineup, rounded up here.
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone. Léos Carax's Holy Motors. David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. Lee Daniels's The Paperboy. Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly. Bill Hader on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon :: смотреть видео на RuTube бесплатно онлайн - ролик Bill Hader on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. 10 Observations About Steve Carell's Goodbye to The Office.